NEWS

Tribeca Films, the distribution label from Tribeca Enterprises and Giant Pictures, has acquired eight films from different film festivals as part of its first round of acquisitions. “Tribeca has championed independent film . . .

Seven-time Oscar nominee Mike Leigh has reteamed with British actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who led his 1996 Oscar-nominated Secrets & Lies, on his latest feature, Hard Truths. We can share a first look at the feature . . .

“Bird,” Andrea Arnold‘s first narrative feature in almost a decade, has been picked up by Cornerstone Films with the company set to launch the feature at the upcoming European Film . . .

“Beast of War,” the upcoming shark thriller from Australian writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner (“Wormwood”) has been snapped up by Signature Entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland, and Well Go for North America. Additional . . .

Kiah Roache-Turner’s next horror project pits a great white shark against a group of stranded Australian soldiers. Another American Film Market, another swarm of shark movies vying for attention amid . . .

Daniel Kokotajlo’s second feature, which world premiered at the London Film Festival, was acquired by Brainstorm Media and BFI Distribution. Starve Acre, the chilling folk horror from British writer and . . .

The feature follows a group of stranded Australian soldiers who face off against a great white shark following an attack on their warship, and is being launched by Cornerstone. Another . . .

Organizers also set the lineups for the first feature, documentary, and short film competition programs. Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Kitty Green (The Assistant) and Christine Molloy and . . .